Summer 2017

From the steroid-saturated Mr. Olympia competition in Las Vegas to the world’s most violent polo match in Kazakhstan, from the fraternity of a Brooklyn arcade to the politics of roller derby in Egypt, the summer issue of VQR looks at ways in which competition transcends just winning or losing—whether it’s through solidarity, equality, or a sense of who we are.

Summer 2017

Volume 93, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2017 cover
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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Profiles 
Criticism 
Photography 
Fiction 
Poetry 
#VQRTrueStory 
Notes to Self 
Fine Distinctions 
Editor's Desk 

Contributor Profiles

Will Boast is the author of the novel Daphne (Norton/Liveright, 2018); a best-selling memoir, Epilogue (Norton/Liveright, 2014); and a story collection, Power Ballads (Iowa, 2011), which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, the Guardian, and the American Scholar, among other publications. He has been a Stegner Fellow and a Rome Prize Fellow.

Michael Croley is the author of Any Other Place: Stories (Blair, 2019), winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His reporting, essays, and stories have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, the New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Golfer’s Journal, Golf Digest, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Denison University.

Emily Eakin is working on a book about real estate and politics. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Republic, among other publications, and has worked as a senior editor at the New Yorker and as a cultural reporter for the New York Times.

Eman Helal is an Egyptian freelance photographer based in Cairo. She covers the Middle East, Africa, and the US. She’s dedicated to covering hard news and documentary projects with a human rights focus. She was selected as a Photography and Human Rights Fellow by the Magnum Foundation in 2013. Eman attended the Joop Swart Masterclass in 2015 and received funding from Magnum Foundation and World Press Photo to complete her project about sexual harassment in Egypt.

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is the author of the poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon, 2017) and the memoir Solito (Hogarth, 2022). His work has appeared in Best New Poets 2013, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry magazine, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Zamora’s honors include a 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award and a Meridian Editors’ Prize. He has also been the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship.

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